the end: week 10

I am so indecisive about my last post because, well, its my last! I am so happy to have done these blogs because I really do notice a lot more about light that I can now articulate a little better than I could be for, or at least identify that it is light that I am noticing. So for my simple last blog I was looking at these photographs I took with my iphone, to make a card, and noticed that what I was interested in in these pictures were the highlights and shadows and the way that creates texture.

In this photo, I find texture and the contrast between texture to ground it. The way the crinkled paper picks up light and shadow is really interesting and actually has a lot of movement in it. The way the shadow reveals how the flower is resting on the brown paper shows how subtly light can fulfill its revealing purpose.

This photograph I don't find as exciting texturally as the previous, but I think what I do look at is how well you can see where the light source is by the shadowing. I think this also appeals to me because of drawing classes that made you draw in the arrow for the source so you would know how to shade the highlights and shadow. The smoother textures reveal a consistency to the relationship of the light to each object and there is a steadiness more than a play.

This photo shows a bit of both things I talk about in the others, but what I notice most here is the deep contrast between highlights and shadow and how dynamic that is. These colors really speak to me too in a musical way. I have realized in my looking more at light that silhouette is so beautiful and predominantly because that sharp contrast is so captivating. It is good for me to recognize this because my work has taken on such an interest in subtlety, I need to remember that high contrast is not only theatrical, it is very human to respond to it, and exists often in nature.